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UN Climate Chief Won't Resign Over Glacier Warning
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON (Jan. 23) -- It sounds like the plot of a Hollywood disaster movie: Central and Southern Asia are hit by biblical floods when the Himalayan glaciers suddenly melt. After that cataclysm, water no longer flows from the mountains, leaving rivers like the Mekong and Ganges dry and millions facing permanent drought. That was the picture painted by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 report, which said there was a "very high" chance that these glaciers would disappear by 2035 if the world kept warming. But the IPCC, the U.N. body charged with investigating climate ...
U.N. Climate Panel Apologizes for Faulty 2007 Statement on Melting Glaciers
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the division of the United Nations that researches global warming, apologized Wednesday for a 2007 report that claimed the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035, CNN reports. The IPCC was responding a controversy swirling around a particular paragraph in the 2007 statement that had come from a long chain of popular articles -- essentially scientific hearsay. The statement read: "Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world, and if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 ...
Switzerland Takes a Little Piece of Italy, Courtesy of Melting Glaciers
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyDue to global warming, Switzerland may be losing huge swaths of the glaciers that have long covered the Alps, but as of Wednesday it's also gained approximately 150 meters of Italian territory. Bloomberg reports that, after the Swiss announced that rising temperatures in the Alps had shifted the landmarks dividing Switzerland from Italy, the two nations agreed to draw new lines using ridges formed by the melting snow and ice. Officials at the Swiss topography office have been watching the landscape along the border since March, when they first warned that the terrain was changing so fast that ...
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